Chapter 3: Round One
Link had woken up the next morning and went to check to see what the tournament ladder to see where he was supposed to start. He was in the eighth branch along with Mario and some one named Marth. He figured it was a new contestant and would probably be a push over. He rushed over to the area that he was supposed to go to prepare for the first round. He also noticed that Zelda had started on the exact opposite side of the tournament as he did. He just hoped someone would eliminate her, so he wouldn't have to fight her.
Once arriving Link saw three capsule looking things. There were instruction that read: Step into the capsule and wait for the round to start. It will transport you to the selected stage for the certain round. A computer will tell you the rules of the round. He did as it said and stepped in. He also saw Mario step into his. Link waited for only a few moments until he heard a computer sounding voice.
"Rule selected: two man survival, stage selected: Hyrule Temple, fighters get ready fight!" the voice faded as they started to disappear and faded onto the stage in their own way. Link had come in by a vortex of air that wrapped around him making his air blow up ward. It created the effect of him having the ability to fly. He looked at Mario and Marth enter and smirked.
"Are you two ready?" He asked unsheathing the Hyrulian sword and bringing his shield in front of him. He also had a bag of bombs, the boomerang, and a bow and arrow tied behind him.
"Sure am ,Link," said Mario forming a fireball in his hand launching it at Link as Marth came behind him and knocked him to the ground with his sword. Link quickly jumped dodging the fireball and twirling in the air and charged up an arrow and shot it at Marth. Marth quickly used his counter to dodge the arrow. Link quickly charged at him stabbing his sword into Marth's cape by accident. He then ripped it out.
"You are going to regret that fool," stated Marth with a Japanese accent
"So, you do speak," said Link who had rolled away from Marth. He then started to charge toward Link who had his hook out and got Marth. He then leaned back on the ground and flung him off the edge. He screamed as a flash of light came from the void. Soon a platform appeared above the stage with Marth on it.
"Nice work," Marth said jumping down knocking out Mario. "But you will have to do better than that to defeat me." Link gripped his sword tightly and started to charge toward his knocking him back. "Pretty good, but can you handle this." Marth started to charge up his sword. As he did so, it started to glow a dark purple color. It smashed down on Link sending him to his back with small wounds on him. He got up breathing heavy sheathing his sword and reaching behind him to get a couple of bombs.
"Are you giving up weakling?" taunted Marth smirking.
"No, I'm doing the exact opposite," stated Link throwing two bombs at him as they exploded in his face. A couple of them hit Mario as he jumped down from the platform and hit a bomb-omb making him lose his last life. Link then started to charge toward him hoping to take Marth's last life. Many things were running through the mind of Link at that moment. One of which was for the sake of Hyrule. Link connected swords with Marth as the two of them started to fight for ascension into the next round. If he had some more bombs he would use it to send him flying. A thought just came to his mind as he pushed Marth back. He pulled out his boomerang launching Marth out of Hyrule castle making him star.
"Nice effect," said Link doing his taunt before he was beamed out of the arena.
"Winner: Link," said the computer voice as the capsule was opening up. "Please proceed to the ladder board to receive your next instructions." Link exited the capsule as said and went back to the ladder board. He looked seeing that Zelda had also advanced along with Luigi, Mewtwo, Gannondorf, Mr. Game and Watch, Samus, and Roy. On the board flashed that the next round would be starting in two hours. This would give the victors of the first round a break, and a chance to brag.